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Music | Music People | Music BusinessWed, 21 Feb 2018 13:29:55 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.4Elton John writing new music for Lion King remake, hoping to get Beyonce involvedhttp://www.completemusicupdate.com/article/elton-john-writing-new-music-for-lion-king-remake-hoping-to-get-beyonce-involved/
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Elton John has confirmed that he is writing new music for Disney’s upcoming remake of ‘The Lion King’. The new version of the film, starring Beyonce and Donald Glover, will also feature John’s music from the original.

According to Metro, the musician said: “They need to have a new end credits song. There’s going to be four of our songs in the film, from the original: ‘Can You Feel The Love Tonight’, ‘Hakuna Matata’, ‘I Just Can’t Wait To Be King’ and ‘Circle Of Life’. And then there will be an end, closing song. We’ve been speaking to Beyoncé’s people and hopefully Tim [Rice] and I and her can cook up something”.

He added that it would be “great to work with” Beyonce. Which I’m sure it would.

New York-based brewery Lineup Brewing has been forced to pull its latest beer, following a cease-and-desist notice from Beyonce. The 5% German pilsner Bieryonce – as well as being named after the singer – featured artwork similar to her 2013 ‘Beyonce’ album.

Launched earlier this month, Bieryonce was the brewery’s first canned beer. Head brewer Katarina Martinez explained that she named the beer after an industry event she had to attend clashed with a Beyonce show she’d wanted to go to.

“I was terribly sad about it, so I decided to name [the beer] in her honour”, she said ahead of the beer’s release. “I’m also a Hispanic, woman-owned and operated business, so I really look up to her and the strength and empowerment she promotes with women”.

Speaking to Pitchfork after the lawyers got involved last week, Martinez again said that she’s “very inspired” by Beyonce, before adding: “We’re disappointed she didn’t take it as a compliment, but oh well. It was fun while it lasted!”

The beer formerly known as Bieryonce is now awaiting a new name. Here are a few suggestions in the same vein: Bieruno Mars, Cardi Bier, Bierlink 182, Bierdy, Bieritney Spears, Bieruce Springsteen, Plan Bier, The Notorious BierIG and Bierwitched. Or they could just go with the classier sounding, Taylor Sips.

• Florence Welch is to publish a book of lyrics, poetry and sketches from her own notebooks on 5 Jul, titled ‘Useless Magic’. “I have long wanted to persuade Florence to write a book”, says Penguin’s Juliet Annan. “I am so THRILLED”, adds Welch. The Machine could not be reached for comment.

• One Directioner Louis Tomlinson has released his latest solo single, ‘Miss You’.

• The xx have released a short film about their Lollapalooza Berlin headline show earlier this year, titled ‘We See You Berlin’.

• The Go! Team have released a new Morse code-inspired song, ‘Mayday’. “I’ve always wanted to do a song with Morse code in it and when I hit upon the idea of applying a mayday distress signal to love problems I was surprised it had never been done before”, says the band’s Ian Parton.

• Alela Diane has announced that she will release new album, ‘Cusp’, on 9 Feb. From it, this is ‘Émigré’.

• Thomas Truax is back. He will release his ninth album, ‘All That Heaven Allows’, on 2 Feb. From it, this is new single ‘Save Me’, featuring Gemma Ray.

Jay-Z has confirmed that he and Beyonce worked on a joint album together, but that that project was superseded by their solo confessional albums, ‘Lemonade’ and ‘4:44’.

In an interview in the New York Times, the rapper explains: “We were using our art almost like a therapy session. And we started making music together. Then the music she was making at that time was further along. So her album came out as opposed to the joint album that we were working on”.

He adds that listening to each other’s resulting records, which exposed issues in their relationship, made them “both very, very uncomfortable”. Although, he notes, “the best place in the, you know, hurricane is like in the middle of it”.

“That’s where we were sitting”, he continues. “And it was uncomfortable. And we had a lot of conversations. [I was] really proud of the music she made, and she was really proud of the art I released. And … at the end of the day we really have a healthy respect for one another’s craft. I think she’s amazing. You know, most people walk away – the divorce rate is like 50% or something – because most people can’t see themselves. The hardest thing is seeing pain on someone’s face that you caused, and then have to deal with yourself”.

A legal squabble is ongoing between Beyonce and a company trying to trademark the brand Poison Ivy Park in the US. You might have noticed that brand is rather similar to Beyonce’s fashion line Ivy Park. Which could be confusing. But not so, says 47/72 Inc, the company behind the trademark application. You’re forgetting their use of the word ‘Poison’, see.

This ongoing trademark spat has been spotted by The Blast, a new celebrity website set up by some former TMZ staff members. It says that 47/72 Inc – which, apparently, also has a US trademark application pending for ’99 Problems’ and previously unsuccessfully tried to trademark ‘Swiftie’ – filed its application for the Poison Ivy Park mark last year, just as Beyonce was launching her fashion tie-up with Topshop.

The Blast also reports that the pop star’s legal team have, somewhat unsurprisingly, filed an objection to the 47/72 Inc application. The objection states that – if granted – the rival trademark will confuse consumers, especially if – as is proposed – it is used for a line of clothing. But 47/72 Inc has argued back that no one is ever going to be confused. Not in the slightest. They’re using the word ‘Poison’, remember.

In the latest round of legal wrangling, Beyonce’s team have now complained that 47/72 Inc has been slow to provide documents they require as part of the discovery phase of the legal battle. 47/72 Inc’s CEO has seemingly responded by saying he is suffering from depression and that that has caused delays in getting together the requested files.

Beyonce is to star in a remake of Disney’s ‘The Lion King’, directed by Jon Favreau. Also on the cast list is Donald Glover, aka rapper Childish Gambino.

The movie is the follow-up to Favreau’s semi-live action remake of ‘The Jungle Book’, which came out last year. If ‘The Lion King’ follows the same format, while not being a musical, it will feature elements of the original soundtrack – in this case penned by Elton John and Tim Rice.

Beyonce is set to voice Nala, the childhood friend of lead character Simba (voiced by Glover). Also among the cast are James Earl Jones, reprising his role as Simba’s father Mufasa, British comedian John Oliver, who will voice Mufasa’s confidant Zazu, and Seth Rogen as the warthog Pumbaa.

“It is a director’s dream to assemble a talented team like this to bring this classic story to life”, Favreau said in a statement.

• Beyonce features on a new remix of ‘Mi Gente’ by J Balvin and Willy William, singing in Spanish like a regular Justin Bieber. She has announced that she will donate her royalties from the song to hurricane relief charities.

• Liam Gallagher has released the video for new single ‘Greedy Soul’. His solo album’s out next week, ending a campaign that feels like it’s been running for 26 years.

• James Blunt has released the video for ‘Don’t Give Me Those Eyes’, from his ‘The Afterlove’ album. He’s touring the UK’s arenas in November, just to remind you that quite a lot of people actually like him.

• Maroon 5 have released new single ‘What Lovers Do’. It features SZA, who is great, but the bulk of it is still Maroon 5, so probably still give it a miss.

• Ariel Pink has released the video for ‘Time To Live’, from his new album ‘Dedicated To Bobby Jameson’:

• Converge have released new single ‘Reptilian’, and also announced that they will put out their first album for five years, ‘The Dusk In Us’, on 3 Nov.

• Vessels have released the video for ‘Mobilise’, taken from their new album ‘The Great Distraction’. That album’s out today, why are you not already listening to it?

• Amanda Mair has released new single ‘Rush’:

• Baby In Vain have shared the video for new single ‘Low Life’. The band will be touring the UK next month.

• Jakwob has released ‘Ghost Optics’, taken from new EP ‘Lifted’.

• Tiggs Da Author is back with new single, ‘Work It Out’:

• Estrons have released new single ‘Cold Wash’:

• Die So Fluid have announced that they will release new album, ‘One Bullet From Paradise’, on 1 Dec. Sample a couple of tracks here:

• Chloe Howl will play her first show for two years at The Waiting Room in Stoke Newington on 6 Nov. Tickets went on sale this morning.

An unknown number of vinyl copies of Beyonce’s ‘Lemonade’ album mistakenly feature the first five tracks of Canadian punk band Zex’s recent ‘Uphill Battle’ LP. The error was noticed when at least one fan took the unusual step of actually playing a piece of vinyl they’d bought.

The vinyl release of Beyonce’s most recent album came out last week, but due to a pressing error some stock featured the incorrect tracks on Side A. In a statement, Sony Music said: “Due to human error at the Celebrate Records plant in Germany, which Sony uses to manufacture vinyl, a small amount of the European run of the Beyonce ‘Lemonade’ vinyl included music from Canadian punk band, Zex, on Side A”.

And before you start claiming that this was a ruse to promote Beyonce’s favourite Canadian punk band, the statement continued: “Beyonce and Zex were not aware of or responsible for the mispress. Fans who purchased the vinyl will be refunded and given a replacement copy. We apologise for the inconvenience this has caused”.

Of course, that assumes two things. One, that people will want to send back what has immediately become a collectors’ item. And two, that anyone will notice. A study published last year found that as many as 48% of vinyl buyers never actually play their records.

One distributor recently told CMU that vinyl will almost always be returned if there is damage to the cover, but that records pretty much never come back to them because of complaints about the quality of the record itself. Partly this is because, in the digital age, music fans will often opt to actually listen to tracks via their streaming platform of choice, but buy the vinyl release because they want a physical representation of their tastes. Mainly though, it’s because people are awful.

Beyonce has not commented on any of this, though Zex have been gleefully posting coverage of the error in publications like Vanity Fair and Variety to their Facebook page.

• Fleetwood Mac’s Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie have released a new single, ‘Feel About You’. Their first ever album as a duo, the imaginatively titled ‘Lindsey Buckingham/Christine McVie’, is out on 9 Jun.

Lawyers for Beyonce have asked a court to dismiss a lawsuit filed against the singer in relation to samples that appear on the video for her track ‘Formation’, from last year’s ‘Lemonade’ album.

As previously reported, in February Beyonce was sued by the estate of Anthony Barre, who built a following on YouTube under the moniker Messy Mya with his video posts. Barre was murdered in 2010 and his estate is now overseen by his sister Angel.

The singer is accused of sampling Barre’s voice on the video for ‘Formation’ without permission. The video includes footage of the Hurricane Katrina disaster and includes New Orleans native Barre saying lines including “What happened at the New Orleans” and “Bitch, I’m back by popular demand”.

Lawyers for the singer say that the video’s producer, Pretty Bird, did secure permission to use the clips of Barre, and – anyway – even if it hadn’t, the use of the clips was unsubstantial and therefore covered by the ‘fair use’ principle under US copyright law.

Requesting that the case be thrown out, lawyer Mary Ellen Roy wrote that: “Pretty Bird licensed the YouTube videos from Mr Barre’s family before plaintiff Angel Barre had herself appointed as the administrator of the estate of Anthony Barre weeks after the music video’s premiere – presumably for the purpose of bringing this action”.

The lawyer adds that the Barre estate’s lawsuit exaggerates Beyonce’s use of the clips, saying that about ten seconds of material was used on her video and six seconds at live shows. That, the lawyer argued, was fair use.

Politics sure is one fucked up place right now, what with all of our politicians banging their faces into the wall like clockwork mice wound up by Vladimir Putin. As a result, there’s an overwhelming and understandable urge to disengage.

But that is the opposite of what we should be doing right now. This is the time to connect with our political representatives. Which is why it is commendable that The Daily Edge’s Amy O’Connor last week wrote to every single member of the Irish parliament to ask if they like Beyonce and what their favourite song of hers is.

“Last week, I was sitting at my desk, minding my own business, when it occurred to me that I didn’t know what any of our politicians thought of Beyonce”, writes O’Connor. “Do they like her? Do they know who she is? Do they engage with her music? Do they own ‘I CAME TO SLAY’ merchandise? Politicians were getting away with keeping their views on Beyonce to themselves and it was up to me to get to the bottom of it”.

So, she drafted a simple questionnaire to send to all 158 of Ireland’s Teachtaí Dálas (which is Irish for ‘MPs’).

1. Do you like Beyonce?
2. If you answered YES, what is your favourite Beyonce song?
3. If you answered NO, why don’t you like Beyonce?

In all, 37 TDs responded to the survey. Not sure what the other 121 were doing, but of those who replied, a majority claimed to like the former Destiny’s Child leader. Some even displayed knowledge beyond a panicked Google search. Some even claimed some affinity with her.

“Like most people I’m a huge fan of Queen B, to paraphrase Kanye she’s’ ‘one of the best of all time'”, wrote Fianna Fáil’s Declan Breathnach, for example. “After a long day in the Dáil, putting my feet up and treating myself to some old school Destiny’s Child is one of my favourite ways to unwind. ‘Survivor’ would have to be my favourite song of hers, what an anthem! It almost describes the life of a politician ‘I’m not gon stop, I’m gon work harder, I’m a survivor'”.

You should try reading that again while looking a picture of Declan Breathnach. It really adds something.

Sinn Féin’s Gerry Adams said that he could not respond due to “time constraints”. And yet he has time to tweet about Christmas cake. Although, I guess given that it’s March that does suggest he has something of an admin backlog.

Beyonce, Coldplay, Madonna and John Legend are among a list of celebrities and executives who have signed an open letter published by anti-poverty charity Global Citizen calling for greater rights for women and girls around the world.

“We have reached a critical moment in history. Recent legislation and rhetoric have put decades of progress for girls and women at risk”, says the letter. “All over the world, women are on the frontlines fighting for our future. Yet millions of girls and women are still denied basic equal rights. And recent policies and appointments in the United States jeopardise its position as a global leader and positive role model on human rights”.

“We stand together to say, in a voice louder than ever, that fighting for gender equality is the emergency and the opportunity of our time”, it continues. “We believe that connection empowers us. That every voice matters. That each one of us is needed to achieve change. We believe we can do extraordinary things when we come together”.

• Beyonce has cancelled her Coachella headline slot, which isn’t really surprising given that she will be in the advanced stages of pregnancy with twins come April. She has vowed to perform at the festival next year though.

• Musical movie ‘La La Land’ may have lost out on the Best Picture prize at the Oscars last night – on take two of that announcement – but it won both the music prizes, for Best Original Score and Best Original Song, the latter for ‘City Of Stars’.

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The Grammys happened then. And despite seven million thinkpieces in advance asking if they’re still relevant, here we all are talking about them. All manner of things happened that we can talk about. I will now proceed to talk about some of them.

The big Album Of The Year prize went to Adele for ’25’ – one of five she won in total – who went ahead and Kanyed herself, as West himself wasn’t in attendance. “I can’t possibly accept this award”, she said, accepting the award. “The ‘Lemonade’ album was just so monumental, Beyonce. It was so monumental and well thought-out and beautiful and soul-bearing”.

She also, possibly by accident, broke the trophy in two and offered half of it to Beyonce. She still had both halves when she appeared for photos backstage though. But maybe she gave Beyonce her bit later. That would give ‘Lemonade’ one and a half Grammys – it having already received Best Urban Contemporary Album earlier in the evening.

In a speech accepting that prize, Beyonce said: “My intention for the film and album is to create a body of work that would give voice to our pain, our struggles, our doubts, and our history, to confront issues that make us uncomfortable. It’s important to me to show images to my children that reflect their beauty, so they can grow in a world, where they look in the mirror, first with their own families as well as in the Super Bowl, the Olympics, the White House and the Grammys and see themselves. This is something that I want for every child of every race, and I feel that it’s vital that we learn from the past and recognise our tendencies to repeat our mistakes”.

Adele was also involved in another of the night’s more memorable moments, performing a tribute to George Michael, which she halted and restarted when it didn’t go as planned. A minute into her slow-paced cover of Michael’s ‘Fastlove’ she fluffed a note, stopped and told the audience “I’m sorry, I can’t mess this up for him”, before restarting the performance.

Lady Gaga and Metallica didn’t get to stop their performance of the latter’s single ‘Moth Into Flame’, despite frontman James Hetfield’s microphone not working. He eventually moved to share a mic with Gaga, but was visibly displeased by the end.

Those accusations of irrelevance though. Those just won’t go away, will they? It’s a pitfall of any major awards event, but they have increasingly dogged the Grammys in recent years. And with various major artists sitting out the event yesterday, including Kanye West, Drake, Justin Bieber and Frank Ocean, they were only fuelled further this year.

One attempt to bring the event up to speed with 2017 was to allow self-releasing artists and streaming-only albums to be considered for awards. Many saw this as a way to allow Chance The Rapper and his ‘Coloring Book’ album to receive nominations. It certainly paid off, because he won three trophies in the end – Best Rap Performance for ‘No Problem’, Best Rap Album for ‘Coloring Book’, and Best New Artist.

Chance also turned in one of the best performances of the night, playing gospel versions of ‘How Great’ and ‘All We Got’.

A lot more than all that happened, but it’s a very long show. There were 20 performances in all. Twenty! Which meant there was only time to give out nine of the 84 total awards at the main show. You can see all the winners here.

Beyonce is being sued by the estate of Anthony Barre, who built a following on YouTube under the moniker Messy Mya with his video posts. Barre was murdered in 2010.

The singer is accused of sampling Barre’s voice on her track ‘Formation’, which appeared on last year’s ‘Lemonade’ album. The video for the track includes footage of the Hurricane Katrina disaster and seemingly includes New Orleans native Barre saying lines including “What happened at the New Orleans” and “Bitch, I’m back by popular demand”.

Barre’s estate, mainly his sister, says that the rapper’s voice was sampled without permission, that he was not credited, and that the estate has received no royalties. The estate’s legal claim also says that efforts to contact Beyonce and her people have so far been unsuccessful. Both she and label Sony Music are being sued.

So it turns out that there is no feud between Rihanna and Beyonce over their Grammy nominations because OH MY GOD SHUT UP.

The nominations for the 2017 Grammys came out this week. You probably noticed. Beyonce is up for nine awards, while Rihanna is up for a measly eight.

That’s eight nominations, when it clearly should have been ten. Why isn’t Rihanna up for Song Of The Year and Album Of The Year? Huh? Huh? Conspiracy, right? The shady Grammy people didn’t want Rihanna to have more nominations than Beyonce, so they fixed it. Obviously.

This was a theory put forward by a Rihanna fan account on Instagram following the nominations announcement. A post that Rihanna herself subsequently liked. Which everyone took to be proof that she believes the conspiracy theory to be true, because if there’s one thing that we can all be certain of in the modern age, it’s people’s intentions when they press a reaction button on social media.

It’s alright though, turns out there might be one or two situations where that is not the case. A hoohaa having erupted, Rihanna returned to clarify her ‘like’, writing: “I never actually read your caption, [just] thought the pic was funny and moved right along! I’m petty as fuck, yes. But this is just unnecessary! I wish y’all would drop this topic and see things from the bigger picture! We don’t need to be pitting black women against each other! We deserve to be celebrated, and the Grammy Academy agrees!”

Oh wait, so being a female popstar isn’t a competition, and they aren’t all spending their days wishing each other dead? Well, this is quite the revelation.

The nominations for the 2017 Grammy Awards are out, and Beyonce has more nominations than you or any body. Nine she’s got. That’s loads. Drake, Rihanna and Kanye West only have eight each. Which is rubbish.

Adele is out there representing us Brits reasonably well. She’s up for Album Of The Year, Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year and Best Pop Vocal Album. Underworld are in the Best Dance/Electronic Album category, while David Bowie, PJ Harvey and Radiohead are fighting it out for Best Alternative Music Album, and Coldplay are up against Jamie XX for Best Music Video. There might be other Brits shortlisted too, but I’m not about to start Googling every nominee on the off chance.

Instead, here’s Recording Academy boss Neil Portnow with a quote: “Just as we see emerging musicians experimenting, we’re also seeing established artists resisting what’s expected of them and, instead, embracing the creative freedom they’ve been afforded through their success, blurring the lines between music’s mainstream and artistic edge”.

Nice one Neil. Thanks. The ceremony will take place on 12 Feb. In the unlikely event you want to look through all of the nominees yourself, you’ll find them here.

• Run The Jewels have released another new track from their third album, ‘RTJ3’. They’ve also announced that the LP will be out on 13 Jan digitally, and 20 Jan in physical form. Anyway, here’s Legend Has It’.

• GJan has released the video for her latest single, ‘Wild’. “It was an unforgettable feeling to see all those actors connecting to the song that we wrote”, says the singer. She’s set to release her debut album next year.

• Japanese band The Gazette have furnished their new internationally available Vevo channel with the videos for ‘Dogma’ and ‘Deux’. This is the first time the two videos have been available online.

• Nordoff Robbins will host its annual carol service, this year supported by Apple Music, at St Luke’s Church in Chelsea 13 Dec. Among various performances and celebrity readings, Tom Odell will do a turn. AA Gill will also be there, but try not to let that put you off. More details here.

• Tegan & Sara have announced UK dates for next year, kicking off with a performance at The Roundhouse in London on 13 Feb.

Other notable announcements and developments today…

• Spotify has launched its latest thing, Singles. The series features artists turning up to the streaming service’s own studios to record one of their own songs plus a cover. The feature launches with 20 artists, including John Legend, Tove Lo and Andrew Bird. Listen here.

• Music-savvy marketing agency Frukt has named Shirley Richter Hughes the new Managing Director of its US operations. Hap Deneen is promoted to SVP and Jesus Gonzalez joins as VP Music Partnerships. “We are THRILLED to have our US leadership team in place”, says Frukt Global MD Dom Hodge.

• Childish Gambino’s new album will be available in “Virtual reality limited edition vinyl”. What does that mean? Who knows, his website doesn’t really explain. Let’s all pre-order it anyway.

• Michael Kiwanuka has cancelled his North American tour. The shows were due to begin in Philadelphia last Sunday, but initial dates were pulled. A statement says that Kiwanuka “has vocal damage and has been diagnosed with tonsillitis and under doctor’s orders, is unable to perform”.

So, the good old US of A goes to the polls today for a bizarrely close vote threatening to be a Brexit-style disaster. By this time tomorrow, Donald Trump could be the leader of the free world.

Actually, given that he wouldn’t be sworn in until January, that gives him plenty of time to get bored and decide he’d rather do something else. It’ll be America’s “maybe Brexit just won’t happen”. But anyway…

The world of music, on the whole, is not in favour of a President Trump outcome, which is why the Donald hasn’t been getting the stars up on stage to sing with him in the final stages of the election campaign. Or, as he would tell you, it’s because he doesn’t need any star power other than his own to get people to come to his rallies.

As both presidential candidates held events to gain last minute support yesterday, Trump said that when they appeared at a Hillary Clinton rally at the weekend, Jay-Z and Beyonce used language that was “so bad that many of the people left … using words that if I ever used those words, it would be the reinstitution of the electric chair – it’s true!”

He also offered a critique of their performance, in which he said: “And as they were… singing? Singing, right? Talking? Was it talking or singing? I don’t know”.

So, there you go, Trump’s view of rap remains in the ‘they’re just talking’ camp, and he also seems to think that Beyonce is a rapper. Maybe in the event he doesn’t win this election, he could start a YouTube channel doing comedy reviews of musicians. Because there are plenty more musical Clinton supporters to get his teeth into.

Speaking of getting crowds, last night Madonna made a surprise appearance at Washington Square Park in New York to play an acoustic performance, and reiterated her support for Clinton, saying: “Vote with your heart, vote with your mind, vote with your spirit, vote with your soul. Save this country, please”.

Lady Gaga didn’t lead a legion of fans to the polls, but she did make the location of her local polling booth more obvious with a striking voting outfit. She also tweeted her support for Clinton, telling fans: “We need to mobilise now, vote Hillary and stop this dangerous man from continuing to divide and wreck our democracy”.

And if you were in any doubt about the danger he presents, Aphex Twin took the nuclear war theme of Grimes’ aforementioned video to further extremes. Although he also pulled back and revealed that he was using nuclear attack as a metaphor for an upcoming performance at the Day For Night festival in Houston on 17 Dec.

The MTV European Music Awards took place yesterday in Rotterdam. These are the MTV awards that take place in Europe, rather than specifically recognising European music, which is why mainly Americans win stuff.

Very little of note happened, although Green Day closed the show after picking up their Global Icon award by performing ‘American Idiot’, which they dedicated to Donald Trump.

Trump, of course, has been busy telling anyone who’ll listen of late that he doesn’t need celebrity endorsements – directing this mainly at Jay-Z and Beyonce, who joined Hillary Clinton on stage at a rally over the weekend. I’m sure he’d pass on a little of that bile to Green Day as well though, there’s plenty to go around. Maybe he can imprison them all in the same cell when he becomes president.

Back at the EMAs, this year’s trophies were coloured purple in tribute to Prince, and three of said trophies were taken home by Justin Bieber. Little Mix won Best UK & Ireland Act for the second year running. And Lady Gaga won an award that was sponsored by Listerine. That’s the whole thing pretty much covered.

Here’s a list of all the winners, except the country-specific ones, because who has time?

Other notable announcements and developments today…

• Meat Loaf’s 1977 album ‘Bat Out Of Hell’ is being made into a musical to mark its fortieth anniversary, which figures. The record’s writer Jim Steinman is scripting the stage show, which is set to open in Manchester. Meat Loaf himself is seemingly not involved.

• Sia has released a new track, ‘The Greatest’, featuring Kendrick Lamar. If you’d prefer to hear it without Kendrick for some reason, here’s the video.

• Beyonce has postponed a show in New York tonight after been told by doctors to rest her voice. The performance at MetLife Stadium will now take place on 7 Oct.

• Green Day have announced three UK shows for next February. They will play Leeds’ First Direct Arena on 5 Feb, the Manchester Arena on 6 Feb, and then the O2 Arena in London on 8 Feb. Tickets on sale on Friday.

• High Contrast will headline Together Halloween at Brixton Academy on 28 Oct. Also on that bill are Sigma, Sub Focus, Camo & Krooked, Dimension, 1991 and a Pendulum DJ set.

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by filmmaker Matthew Fulks against Beyonce, in which the former accused the latter of ripping off his 2014 short film ‘Palinoia’ for the movie elements of her recent album ‘Lemonade’.

As previously reported, Fulks said that various elements of the ‘Lemonade’ film were taken from his work, including “graffiti and persons with heads down”, “red persons with eyes obscured”, “parking garage”, “feet on the street” and “side-lit ominous figures”. In fact, said the director, Beyonce nicked the “total concept and feel” of his short for her mini-film.

Legal reps for the singer quickly responded, saying that while the two films may share a common theme, and there may or may not be some stylistic similarities, none of that was sufficient to constitute copyright infringement.

Beyonce’s court papers added that: “A straightforward comparison of the parties’ works provides a textbook example of what does not constitute a legally cognisable claim of infringement. [Fulks legal claim] describes elements and features of the works in abstractions so broad as to be meaningless – because, as even a cursory review of the parties’ works makes clear, at the level of copyrightable expression the works are markedly dissimilar”.

And, it seems, the judge hearing the case agrees. Team Beyonce wanted a summary judgement in their favour, and now they’ve got it. Although yet to provide a detailed outline of his decision, judge Jed Rakoff said this week, according to The Hollywood Reporter: “Upon full consideration of the parties’ briefs and oral arguments, the court grants defendants’ motion”.

So let’s say no more about it. Though, actually, Rakoff has more to say about it, in a full judgement yet to be released. And Fulks will presumably have more to say about it too. But let’s all agree that we’ve got no more to say about it, shall we?

Can everyone please take note that Beyonce’s ‘Lemonade’ film is in no way similar to the short film ‘Palinioa’? And even if it is, those similarities in no way constitute anything even nearing copyright infringement.

Not my plea, ladies and gentleman, but those of the lawyer representing the singer and her company Parkwood Entertainment, who were sued in June by independent filmmaker and ‘Palinioa’ director Matthew Fulks.

He says that various elements of the film that accompanied Beyonce’s most recent album are taken from his work, including ‘graffiti and persons with heads down”, “red persons with eyes obscured”, “parking garage”, “feet on the street” and “side-lit ominous figures”. Basically, says Fulks, Beyonce nicked the “total concept and feel” of his short for her mini-film and its trailer.

But not so says lawyer Tom Ferber, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Yes, the two films both document “a distressed lover’s pain”, but a common theme, and any other stylistic similarities there may or may not be, do not constitute copyright infringement.

Says he in a legal filing: “A straightforward comparison of the parties’ works provides a textbook example of what does not constitute a legally cognisable claim of infringement”. He adds that Fulks legal claim “describes elements and features of the works in abstractions so broad as to be meaningless – because, as even a cursory review of the parties’ works makes clear, at the level of copyrightable expression the works are markedly dissimilar”.

Team Beyonce want the case dismissed forthwith. A court hearing is now set for 25 Aug.